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a constitutional presence in the United 

States would render ineffectual the 

blocking and other measures authorized 

in the Order because of the ability to 

transfer funds instantaneously,’’ I 

determine that no prior notice needs to 

be provided to any person subject to this 

determination who might have a 

constitutional presence in the United 

States, because to do so would render 

ineffectual the measures authorized in 

the Order. 

This notice shall be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Dated: January 9, 2015. 

John F. Kerry, 

Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00790 Filed 1–16–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee—New Task 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of a continuation of task 

assignment for the Aviation Rulemaking 

Advisory Committee (ARAC). 

SUMMARY: The FAA assigned the 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC) a continuation of 

task to a previously established working 

group. This continuation of task 

requests the working group to provide 

cost and benefit data for the proposed 

implementation of the ARAC 

recommendations submitted in 2012 

regarding the FAA’s approach to update, 

reorganize and improve the level of 

safety requirements for the flammability 

of materials for transport category 

airplanes. This notice informs the 

public of a continuation to a previous 

ARAC activity, reinstates the Materials 

Flammability Working Group, and does 

not solicit membership. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Gardlin, Airframe/Cabin Safety Branch, 

ANM–115, Transport Airplane 

Directorate, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., 

Renton, Washington 98057, telephone 

(425) 227–2136, facsimile (425) 227– 

1149; email jeff.gardlin@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

ARAC Acceptance of Task 

As a result of the December 18, 2014, 

ARAC meeting, the FAA assigned and 

ARAC accepted and designated this task 

to the Transport Airplane and Engine 

(TAE) Subcommittee, reinstating the 

Materials Flammability Working Group. 

The Materials Flammability Working 

Group will serve as staff to the ARAC, 

through the TAE Subcommittee, and 

will provide advice and 

recommendations on the assigned task. 

The TAE Subcommittee will review and 

approve the recommendation report and 

will send the approved recommendation 

report to the ARAC for acceptance. After 

ARAC accepts the recommendation 

report, it will submit the 

recommendation report to the FAA. 

Background 

The FAA established the ARAC to 

provide information, advice, and 

recommendations on aviation related 

issues that could result in rulemaking to 

the FAA Administrator, through the 

Associate Administrator of Aviation 

Safety. 

On August 27, 2010 [75 FR 52807], 

the FAA tasked ARAC to consider the 

merits and make recommendations for 

improvement of an approach drafted by 

the FAA that would simplify 

compliance demonstrations, and 

upgrade the level of safety for 

flammability throughout the airplane. 

The objective of the proposed approach 

was to completely revisit the 

flammability requirements and take 

advantage of the wealth of data available 

from FAA research and advances in 

material fire safety to provide a simpler 

regulation that provides a higher level of 

safety for transport category airplanes. 

The flammability requirements for 

interior materials on transport category 

airplanes have evolved significantly 

over the years to become more threatbased. By ‘‘threat-based,’’ the FAA 

means the flammability requirements 

use a more realistic test method based 

on the type of fire hazard most critical 

for the components in question. 

Historically, these requirements have 

been based on an analysis of the type of 

threat, the usage of the potentially 

flammable material (e.g., sidewall), and 

the material type (e.g., elastomeric 

materials). This approach has led to 

problems, including multiple 

requirements applying to the same 

component; conflicting requirements for 

the same component depending on what 

material it is made from; and ambiguous 

requirements for components not 

explicitly listed in § 25.853 or Appendix 

F part I of part 25. These ambiguous 

requirements for components not 

explicitly listed have resulted in the 

requirements of § 25.853 or Appendix F, 

part I of part 25 becoming obsolete 

whenever materials change, or 

incomplete when components have 

been developed after the regulation and 

Appendix F of part 25 were issued. 

The Materials Flammability Working 

Group completed the task, and the 

ARAC submitted the recommendations 

to the FAA in August 2012. The 

Materials Flammability Working Group 

believed the proposed threat-based 

organization for the flammability 

regulations was logical, practical and a 

more effective framework for regulation 

going forward than the current 

published regulations. The Materials 

Flammability Working Group believed 

the resulting regulation draft, along with 

appropriate advisory material, would 

ultimately be simpler and more easily 

understood and enforced. In order to 

proceed with rulemaking to implement 

the recommendations, the FAA is 

tasking the ARAC to provide cost and 

benefit data associated with 

implementation. 

The Task 

The Materials Flammability Working 

Group will provide advice and 

recommendations to the ARAC, through 

the TAE Subcommittee, on the costs and 

benefits of implementing the 

recommendations previously submitted 

by the Materials Flammability Working 

Group in August 2012. The 

recommendation report can be found at: 

http://www.faa.gov/regulations_

policies/rulemaking/committees/arac/. 

The Materials Flammability Working 

Group is tasked to: 

1. Review the Materials Flammability 

Working Group Recommendation 

Report dated July 9, 2012 and submitted 

in August 2012, along with subsequent 

research results to be provided to the 

Materials Flammability Working Group 

by the FAA. 

2. Provide quantitative cost data for 

each recommendation, if applicable, 

along with assumptions and rationale 

for the cost data. The FAA will provide 

key assumptions to assist with cost 

estimation. 

3. Provide quantitative economic 

benefit data for each recommendation, if 

applicable. 

4. Provide service data regarding 

incidents (precursors) or accidents 

related to materials flammability that 

would be mitigated in the future by 

implementation of each 

recommendation. 

5. Develop a report containing 

recommendations on the findings and 

results of the tasks explain above. 

a. The recommendation report should 

document both majority and dissenting 

positions on the findings and the 

rationale for each position. 

b. Any disagreements should be 

documented, including the rationale for 

position and the reasons for the 

disagreements. 


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6. The Materials Flammability 

Working Group may be reinstated to 

assist the ARAC, through the TAE 

Subcommittee, by responding to the 

FAA’s questions or concerns after the 

recommendation report has been 

submitted. 

Schedule 

The recommendation report should be 

submitted to the FAA for review and 

acceptance no later than 8 months from 

publication of the tasking statement in 

the Federal Register. 

Working Group Activity 

The Materials Flammability Working 

Group must comply with the procedures 

adopted by the ARAC and are as 

follows: 

1. Conduct a review and analysis of 

the assigned tasks and any other related 

materials or documents. 

2. Draft and submit the 

recommendation report based on the 

review and analysis of the assigned 

tasks. 

3. Present the recommendation report 

at the TAE Subcommittee meeting. 

Participation in the Working Group 

The reinstated Materials Flammability 

Working Group is comprised of 

technical experts having an interest in 

the assigned task. A working group 

member need not be a member 

representative of the ARAC or the TAE 

Subcommittee. The FAA is not 

soliciting membership for the reinstated 

Materials Flammability Working Group. 

The provisions of the August 13, 2014, 

Office of Management and Budget 

guidance, ‘‘Revised Guidance on 

Appointment of Lobbyists to Federal 

Advisory Committees, Boards, and 

Commissions’’ (79 FR 47482), continues 

the ban on registered lobbyists 

participating on Agency Boards and 

Commissions if participating in their 

‘‘individual capacity.’’ The revised 

guidance now allows registered 

lobbyists to participate on Agency 

Boards and Commissions in a 

‘‘representative capacity’’ for the 

‘‘express purpose of providing a 

committee with the views of a 

nongovernmental entity, a recognizable 

group of persons or nongovernmental 

entities (an industry, sector, labor 

unions, or environmental groups, etc.) 

or state or local government.’’ (For 

further information see Lobbying 

Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) as 

amended, 2 U.S.C 1603, 1604, and 

1605.) 

The members of the Materials 

Flammability Working Group must 

actively participate by attending all 

meetings, and providing written 

comments when requested. The 

members must devote the resources 

necessary to support the Materials 

Flammability Working Group in 

meeting any assigned deadlines. The 

members must keep management and 

those represented advised of the 

Materials Flammability Working Group 

activities and decisions to ensure the 

proposed technical solutions does not 

conflict with the position of the 

member’s represent. 

The Secretary of Transportation 

determined the formation and use of the 

ARAC is necessary and in the public 

interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed on the 

FAA by law. 

ARAC meetings are open to the 

public. However, meetings of the 

Materials Flammability Working Group 

are not open to the public. The FAA 

will make no public announcement of 

working group meetings. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 14, 

2015. 

Lirio Liu, 

Designated Federal Officer, Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00749 Filed 1–16–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2014–145] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received; Freight Runners 

Express 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of Title 14 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. The 

purpose of this notice is to improve the 

public’s awareness of, and participation 

in, the FAA’s exemption process. 

Neither publication of this notice nor 

the inclusion or omission of information 

in the summary is intended to affect the 

legal status of the petition or its final 

disposition. 

DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number and 

must be received on or before February 

9, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2014–1029 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 

information the commenter provides, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at http://www.dot.gov/

privacy. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to the Docket 

Operations in Room W12–140 of the 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Keira Jones (202) 267–4024, Office of 

Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 14, 

2015. 

Lirio Liu, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2014–1029. 

Petitioner: Freight Runners Express, 

Inc. 

Section(s) of 14 CFR Affected: 

§ 121.571. 

Description of Relief Sought: Freight 

Runners Express requests relief to 

operate under § 121.571 in lieu of 

§ 135.117 when conducting passenger 

carrying operations under part 135 in 

aircraft with more than 19 seats 

installed. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00746 Filed 1–16–15; 8:45 am] 

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